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Introduction: It seemed like the right thing to do at the time -- The type A diet: sampling strategies to eliminate confounding and reduce your waistline -- Conservatives, liberals, and other political pawns: how to gain power and influence with sample size calculations -- Bunco, bricks, and marked cards: chi-squared tests and how to beat a cheater -- Why it pays to be a stable master: sumo wrestlers and other robust statistics -- Five-hour marriages: continuous distributions, tests for normality, and juicy Hollywood scandals -- Believe it or don't: using outlier detection to find the weirdest of the weird -- The battle of the movie monsters, round two: ramping up hypothesis tests with non parametric statistics -- Models, Murphy's Law, and public humiliation: regression rules to live by."[This book]... presents the more subjective side of statistics the art of data analytics. Each chapter explores a different question using fun, common sense examples that illustrate the concepts, methods, and applications of statistical techniques"-- Back cover.